2010 Nissan Titan
This year drew an ordinary 90 complaints for a Nissan Titan — the model's median is 52. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.8% of them mention work, against 5.2% across the model's other years.
| Complaints filed | 90 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 52 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 14.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- work — 17.8% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- reverse — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (4.5×).
- recurred — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: recurred, failure recurred.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
SHE STATED THAT WHILE IN REVERSE, THE ABS SERVICE WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE DASHBOARD. THE DEALER ADVISED THAT THE ABS CONTROL UNIT HAD FAILED AND WAS REPLACED ACCORDINGLY. THE FAILURE RECURRED WITHIN FOUR DAYS AND THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BACK TO THE DEAL…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH, AN ABNORMAL SOUND EMITTED FROM THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT SMELLED FUMES FROM THE EXHAUST PIPE. THE FAILURE RECURRED MULTIPLE TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTING. THE TECHNICIAN DIAG…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10E019000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 10V072000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 10V208000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V067000 AIR BAGS
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Titan was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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